Dick, List,
Yup, I've been building and racing these crazy rotaries for a long time,
but this'll be the first one I've had in a Mazda chassis since I made the
swap from Mazda RX3's to Datsun's 510 chassis 16 years ago. If I'd thought
about it I may have returned to Mazda chassis long ago. It's a classic
round peg in a square hole doing the Mazda/Datsun swap. The RX7 is so easy
to plop my slightly longer engines into that I'll just have to find
something else to complicate things. (Like not letting my wife know I'm
building a new car!)
I really feel like the lone ranger sometimes running a rotary. I can
count on the fingers of one hand all the rotary land-speed cars I've ever
heard of, and can count on one finger all rotary powered land-speed cars
that didn't use a Mazda chassis. That makes rotaries almost as rare as
Ardun's at Maxton events.
If I can ever get everything together for the new engine, I'll have one
car in the Production (GT) category, one in the Modified category, (GC, ALT)
and a partners project for the Production mini pick-up class (Yup, Mazda
made a rotary Pick-up!) that can run any of my engines.
So what do I do when I get tired of the rotaries? I was thinking about a
V4/GT RX7.
Chuck Rothfuss
ECTA
Pole Cat Hollow, NC
At 09:01 AM 8/9/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>If I remember right, seems to me you have had
>some pretty good luck with them no-pistons HMMMMM
>motors, ain't ya?
>
>Dick J
>
>
>--- Chuck Rothfuss <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>
>wrote:
>> Dick, salt addicts, & whoever else is left of
>> The List,
>>
>> How about pavement pounders from Down East?
>> Probably a few more of us
>> sitting this one out. I'm not going anywhere,
>> (doubt I'd survive the drive
>> to B-ville) and would sure am happy to see some
>> chatter on the list while
>> everyone else is heading out to enjoy the salt.
>> I'm liable to have some
>> tech questions as I tear into the newest of my
>> free RX7 projects. (The
>> harder I look the more I realize just why they
>> were FREE!)
>>
>> Good luck to any travelers who are still
>> checking their mail on the way
>> out the door.
>> Maybe somebody will be able to give us a kinda
>> daily report from the salt,
>> so we don't feel so left out.
>>
>> Chuck Rothfuss
>> 105 in Pole Cat Hollow, NC today!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> At 09:24 AM 8/8/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>> >Okay, I know Doug and I are staying "Home
>> Alone".
>> >Are there any other salt addicts that are
>> going
>> >to be home for the next week or so who will
>> help
>> >keep this list alive? It gets so lonely
>> during
>> >Speed Week when you are one of the
>> >"unfortunates". No more bud - -no more! Next
>> >year -I'm on the salt!
>> >
>> >=====
>> >.............................
>> >..........Dick J.............
>> >......(In East Texas)........
>> >..........# 729..............
>> >........Roadsters............
>> >.Hemis and Flatheads Forever.
>> >.............................
>>
>
>
>=====
>.............................
>..........Dick J.............
>......(In East Texas)........
>..........# 729..............
>........Roadsters............
>.Hemis and Flatheads Forever.
>.............................
>
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